Arts & Entertainment
The latest arts and entertainment highlights, previews, reviews, music and film features and opinion pieces from The Skinny writers.
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FilmGFF 2010: Samurai, Sake and Cyber Dogs
Discover a variety of stories and ideas in this year's Japanese film focus. Read more »| 22 Feb 2010 -
FilmGFF 2010: Yatterman
There's nothing like a cross between Indiana Jones and LazyTown on cocaine to get audiences talking: Yatterman is a wonderfully kooky film which repr... Read more »| 22 Feb 2010 -
FilmGFF 2010: Dogtooth
In Yorgos Lanthimos' Dogtooth, the outside world is a terrifying place; at least, that's the fiction two parents have concocted for their three grown... Read more »| 22 Feb 2010 -
MusicGorillaz - Plastic Beach
Last year a couple of L.A. producers gathered an all-star cast of guests for an album about peace, love and understanding: N.A.S.A.'s The Spirit of Apollo wa... Read more »| 22 Feb 2010 -
MusicVampire Weekend @ HMV Picture House, 14 Feb
Vampire Weekend’s preppy chic was always going to go down a treat on a school night in Edinburgh, but the ecstatic cheers from teenaged girls suggest t... Read more »| 21 Feb 2010 -
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GFF 2010: The Ghost Show
Roll up, roll up, and experience a unique show about fairgrounds, vaudeville, cinema and an elephant's day out. Read more »| 21 Feb 2010
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Film
GFF 2010: About Elly
The true nature of About Elly sneaks up on the audience. Asghar Farhadi's Silver Berlin Bear winner begins as a light-hearted affair with a group of friends ... Read more »| 21 Feb 2010 -
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GFF 2010: Sights and Sounds
We explore the eclectic Music and Film Festival programme. Read more »| 20 Feb 2010 -
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GFF 2010: Beyond the Pole
Poking fun at recent po-faced, Ben Fogle style documentaries, Beyond the Pole follows friends and every-men Brian and Mark (Rhys Thomas and Stephen M... Read more »| 20 Feb 2010 -
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GFF 2010: Court (13) in Session
They make boats which barely float and machines which hardly fly: who on earth are the Court 13 collective? Read more »| 20 Feb 2010 -
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GFF 2010: American: The Bill Hicks Story
When he died at 32, Bill Hicks had been performing stand-up comedy for almost twenty years. In American: The Bill Hicks Story, family and friends trace his t... Read more »| 20 Feb 2010 -
Theatre
The Return of the The Wanderer: 11 and 12
One of the greatest directors of any generation comes back to the venue he helped to found. Read more »| 19 Feb 2010 -
Film
GFF 2010: No Sex Please - She's Catherine Breillat
Controversial filmmaker Catherine Breillat takes a different approach to shock tactics with her latest feature, Bluebeard. Read more »| 19 Feb 2010 -
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GFF 2010: Hidden Diary
In Hidden Diary, Audrey returns to her parents’ home on the French coast after ten years abroad, keeping her pregnancy secret from her distant mother, ... Read more »| 19 Feb 2010 -
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GFF 2010: Cutting Lines
Cynthia Beatt explores the fading boundary of the Berlin Wall in her two documentaries, The Invisible Frame and Cycling the Frame, which open the Glasgow Shorts Film Festival tonight. Read more »| 19 Feb 2010